ETF comparison
COWZ vs VUG
Quality Factor vs US Large Cap Growth.
Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COWZ and VUG would leave roughly 1.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VUG is 46 bps cheaper than COWZ. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/yr more in fees for COWZ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with COWZ vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In COWZ | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Booking Holdings Inc | 2.22% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 2 | Uber Technologies Inc | 1.90% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| 3 | Airbnb Inc | 1.54% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 4 | Adobe Inc | 1.90% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 5 | Autodesk Inc | 0.82% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 6 | Intuit Inc | 2.04% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 7 | ResMed Inc | 0.56% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 8 | Veeva Systems Inc | 0.58% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | Dexcom Inc | 0.49% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 10 | Workday Inc | 0.99% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 11 | Zscaler Inc | 0.31% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Expedia Group Inc | 1.58% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
Only in COWZ
84 total- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 2.18%
- HCA Healthcare Inc 2.07%
- Marathon Petroleum Corp 2.06%
- General Dynamics Corp 2.05%
- Verizon Communications Inc 1.97%
- AT&T Inc 1.95%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 1.93%
- Comcast Corp 1.92%
- Salesforce Inc 1.90%
- Lowe's Cos Inc 1.89%
Only in VUG
130 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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